Cash-carrier for cable-carrier apparatus.



C. M. REYNOLDS.

CASH CARRIER FOR CABLE CARRIER APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2. I915- Patented Oct. 10, 1916.

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CHARLES M. REYNOLDS, OF BRIGETON, LTASSACI'LUSETTS, ASSIG-NOR TO THE LAIVISON COMPANY, OF BOSTON, IVEASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CASH-CARRIER FOR CABLE-CARRIER APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1916.

Application filed March 2, 1915. SerialNo. 11,446.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. REY- NOLDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brighton, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Carriers for Cable-Carrier Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates .to carriers for cable-carrier apparatus,and more especially to carriers such as are shown in the patent of Geo. A. Amsden, No. 960617, dater June 7, 1910.

One of the objects of the present invention is to simplify the construction of carriers of this description.

Another object has been to cheapen the cost of their production; while still another has aimed at making the construction more durable and better able to withstand the severe usage to which such carriers are subjected in practice These and other objects of my invention will be hereinafter referred to and the novel elements and combinations of elements, whereby said objects may be attained will be more particularly pointed out in the claim appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms a part hereof and in which like reference characters designate like parts through;

out the several views, I have exemplified a preferred construction; but as I am aware of various changes and modifications which may be made herein without departing from the spirit of the invention, I desireto be limited only by the scope of said claim.

Referring to the drawing: Figure 1 is a plan or top view of the carrier. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the improved carrier. Fig. 4 is a bottom view of the receptacle or cash box proper; the fiber bottom or guide plates having been removed. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the upper of these fiber plates. Fig. 6 is a similar view of the lower fiber plate showing the bottom sheet-metal guide plate attached thereto; and Fig. 7 is a section taken on line VII-VII of Fig. 6.

The carrier may comprise the usual sheetmetal cash box 1; with a preferably pivotally mounted cover plate 2 adapted to be pressed open by a spring 3, after the latch 1 has been rotated counter-clockwise as viewed in Fig. 1.

The carrier may be fitted with the usual deflecting guide 5, and a cable-gripping devlce comprising the pivotally mounted jaw 6 and coacting jaw 7, which for simplicity, in the present case, is shown as being fixedly mounted upon the bottom of the box 1.

As viewed in Fig. 2, a fiber plate 8, upon vwhich the carrier normally rides when the 11, to accommodate the grip mechanism;

and the sheet metal guide or bottom plate 12, provided with its guide lugs 13 and 1a, is also slotted somewhat arcuately, as at 15, to accommodate the grip parts 7 and 6, and permit the latter to move to its dotted line position, designated 6 in Fig. 8. These carriers are apt to be subjected to rather rough usage and for this reason it has been found to be exceedingly desirable to form this bottom plate 12 from sheet-metal, such as rolled plate or the like; and it has further been found inexpedient to form the metal parts of the carrier, such as the box 1, or plate 12, which are exposed to the hands of the user, of steel, even though the latter be nickelplated; since in time the perspiration from the hands will usually result in the formation of rust spots and discolorations. The box 1, cover plate 2, and bottom plate 12, are hence preferably made of some suitable composition which is rust-proof in character and of reasonably high tensile strength, and it is for this reason that the metal is usually drawn or rolled sheet metal, rather than cast. These considerations are of importance in View of the novel fastening means, new to be described, which are used for connecting the bottom plate 12, fiber plates 8 and 9.and box 1, rigidly together.

Referring more particularly to Figs. 6 and 7 it will be observed that cylindrical bosses 16, project upwardly from the plate 12; and in the present and preferred construction, these bosses are five in number. They are formed from small cylindrical blocks, cut from a metal rod, and these blocks are then integrally united to the plate 12 by welding. This welding is preferably efiected by means of what is known as an electrical spot welding machine; and the union thereby effected between said blocks and the bottom plate 12 is so strong as to be able to resist heavy jars and distortional stresses, when the carrier is in use. The said bosses 15, after they havebeen Welded to the bottom plate, are drilled and tapped for the reception of the threaded lower extremities of the have been assembled to the extent shown in Fig. 4, the plate 8 will now be placed in position upon the bottom of the box 1, so that the holes 18 therein, coincide with the holes 19 in the bottom of the box. One or more of the shoulder bolts 17 may now be introduced through the apertures or holes 18 and 19 and, when the plate 12 with the fiber plate 9 securely mounted thereupon (as by means of a driving engagement between the studs 16 and this fiber plate) are emplaced upon the plate 8, as shown in Fig. 3, the shoulder bolt or bolts 17 may then be screwed into the studs or bosses 16, to effect an exceedingly rigid connection between the several parts.

By reason of the fact that the studs 16 are integrally and autogenously united to the plate 12, the connecting or joining parts are made strongest at the points where they are apt to be subjected to the greatest stress, namely,in the plane of the upper side of the plate 12. This construction is hence far stronger than would be the case if, for ex-- ample, the studs 16 were not integrally united to the plate 12, but were inserted into holes therein, with their exposed lower ends peened or burred into locking engagement 7 with the plate.

A further advantage residing in the construction exemplified in the drawing is that the box is rendered more sightly in appearance; since as shown in Fig. 3 the means for connecting the box, its fiber plates and bot tom or guide plate, are wholly concealed, and the bottom plate presents a smooth unbroken surface, save for the slot 15.

The carrier is thus rendered more durable and sightly and in addition to this the cost of its construction is reduced. At the same time the great advantage of making the bottom plate of rolled metal, or the like, is retained which, of course, would not be the case, were this bottom plate to be made of cast metal.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

In a cash carrier for cable carrier apparatus, the combination of a receptacle for cash or the like, with a guide plate for said receptacle having means to engage one side of the rails of the track upon which the carrier rides, said guide plate being of sheet metal, interiorly threaded bosses, integrally and autogenously united to said guide plate and projecting from the side thereof toward said receptacle, non-metallic rail engaging material between said receptacle and its guide plate and adapted to coact with the latter to retain the carrier in place upon its track, and shoulder bolts connecting said re ceptacle, said non-metallic material and said guide plate rigidly together, said bolts be ing threaded into the integrally united bosses of said guide plate up to the shoulders thereof, whereby to render the thereby connected parts, while separable,nevertheless rigid and substantially unyielding to the lat eral stresses to which they are subjected when the carrier is in use.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES M. REYNOLDS.

lVitnesses:

PATRICK J. RYAN, JAMES F. MULVANEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington,D. C. 

